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==The pausal form as a spelling rule== | ==The pausal form as a spelling rule== | ||
There exists a mismatch between Arabic spelling and classical Arabic pronunciation. For example: | |||
المدرسة جديدة | المدرسة جديدة | ||
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هذا كتابن جديد | هذا كتابن جديد | ||
Rather, Arabic orthography represents this nunnation via a doubling for the final short vowel: | |||
كِتابٌ | |||
The final example for the mismatch between Arabic spelling and classical Arabic pronunciation is: | The final example for the mismatch between Arabic spelling and classical Arabic pronunciation is: | ||
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The word kitāban is spelled as if it were pronounced as kitābā. The “an” marker for the indefinite accusative is spelled as a long ‘a’ vowel (ā). | The word kitāban is spelled as if it were pronounced as kitābā. The “an” marker for the indefinite accusative is spelled as a long ‘a’ vowel (ā). | ||
Arab grammarians tried to explain the mismatch between spelling and classical Arabic pronunciation by saying that every Arabic word is spelled as if the word was the first to be uttered and the last to be uttered.<ref>Ghanim Qadduri, rasm al-miṣḥaf, p.67</ref> This rule explains why the alef of the definite article is always spelled although it’s only pronounced when it’s in the beginning of utterance. It also explains all the previous mismatch examples: | Arab grammarians tried to explain the mismatch between spelling and classical Arabic pronunciation by saying that every Arabic word is spelled as if the word was the first to be uttered and the last to be uttered.<ref>Ghanim Qadduri, rasm al-miṣḥaf, p.67</ref> This rule explains why the alef of the definite article is always spelled although it’s only pronounced when it’s in the beginning or middle of an utterance. It also explains all the previous mismatch examples: | ||
المدرسة جديدة | المدرسة جديدة | ||
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A- The treatment of the final ī in the Quran is usually lost in pause, yet it’s kept in context. This means that the spelling of the Quran isn’t based on the pausal rule. Otherwise, the treatment of the final ī wouldn’t have changed between pausal and non-pausal positions<ref>Marijn Van Putten & Phillip Stokes. [https://www.academia.edu/37481811/Case_in_the_Qurˀānic_Consonantal_Text_Wiener_Zeitschrift_für_die_Kunde_des_Morgenlandes_108_2018_pp_143_179 Case in the Quranic Consonantal Text]. 2018. p.14</ref>. | A- The treatment of the final ī in the Quran is usually lost in pause, yet it’s kept in context. This means that the spelling of the Quran isn’t based on the pausal rule. Otherwise, the treatment of the final ī wouldn’t have changed between pausal and non-pausal positions<ref>Marijn Van Putten & Phillip Stokes. [https://www.academia.edu/37481811/Case_in_the_Qurˀānic_Consonantal_Text_Wiener_Zeitschrift_für_die_Kunde_des_Morgenlandes_108_2018_pp_143_179 Case in the Quranic Consonantal Text]. 2018. p.14</ref>. | ||
B- Internal rhymes in the Quran that only show up if every word | B- Internal rhymes exist in the Quran that only show up if every word is pronounced in the pausal form. This means that what was thought to be a special treatment for the pronunciation of pausal words was actually the norm for almost all words in the original language of the Quran. The mismatch between the Quranic spelling and the Classical Arabic pronunciation is the result of imposing classical Arabic on a text that wasn’t written in Classical Arabic. The Quran was written in a language that Van Putten and Ahmad Al-Jallad call “Old Hijazi”. | ||
==Internal rhymes in the Quran== | ==Internal rhymes in the Quran== | ||
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ʾaghnā wa ʾaqnā. | ʾaghnā wa ʾaqnā. | ||
Old Hijazi: aghnē wa aqnē | Old Hijazi: aghnē wa aqnē (the difference in pronunciation of the final letter here reflects a difference between Classical Arabic and Old Hizazi as reconstructed by van Putten) | ||
<span lang="en" dir="rtl">﴿لَوْ أَنْزَلْنَا هَذَا الْقُرْآنَ عَلَى جَبَلٍ لَرَأَيْتَهُ <u>خَاشِعًا مُتَصَدِّعًا</u> مِنْ خَشْيَةِ اللَّهِ﴾</span> {{Quran|59|21|}} | <span lang="en" dir="rtl">﴿لَوْ أَنْزَلْنَا هَذَا الْقُرْآنَ عَلَى جَبَلٍ لَرَأَيْتَهُ <u>خَاشِعًا مُتَصَدِّعًا</u> مِنْ خَشْيَةِ اللَّهِ﴾</span> {{Quran|59|21|}} | ||